The DNC tried to settle the Florida and Michigan delegate dispute by giving Florida’s delegates half a vote (but giving Hillary Clinton the proportion of delegates she won in the January primary) and dividing up the Michigan delegates, who also get half a vote. Clinton’s team remains unsatisfied over what boils down to 4 Michigan delegates. For now they are maintaining the threat of going to the Credentials Committee and staging a fight in Denver.

I understand entirely what she is up to: maintaining an argument, any argument, to hang around and hope some more political shoes drop or some argument (maybe a sweep of the last few primaries) convinces enough superdelegates to consider throwing the nomination to her. She may yet fold her tent on Tuesday, but she is not foreclosing any options. Although her chance to wrest the nomination from Obama is a long shot at best, she is proceeding in a logical fashion.

Barack Obama’s tactic — quibbling over a few delegates — is baffling. Clinton can not possibly hope to pass him in the pledged delegate race, so why not give her the disputed Michigan delegates and be done with it? She already is going to make her “I won the popular vote” argument, so this seems to leave the door foolishly and needlessly open for Clinton’s continued candidacy. And with the media already buzzing about Obama’s decision to leave Trinity United, why give Clinton a procedural justification to hang on like a bad cold? Baffling.